Seed dinners in London and Manchester this week attracted more than 1,000 guests and raised £500,000 for the educational charity's efforts to nurture Judaism in modern family life.

Reviewing the past year, national director Rabbi Joey Grunfeld highlighted a successful pilot scheme to place parent educators in Jewish primary schools.

"Our first parent educator, Rabbi Daniel Sturgess, is now well established at Sinai School, working on a variety of programmes with the children and their parents. We have just placed Rabbi Gary Bazak into Wolfson Hillel School and a third parent educator will be starting in another school in September."

He also spoke about the Links programme for batmitzvah girls and their mothers, which culminates in an Israel trip.

Former Israel Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau addressed both dinners, describing the organisation as "the bridge to keeping the family together" through the transmission of Jewish culture.

It's the bridge to keeping the family together

Seed has run 1,269 events, attended by 8,040 people in 30 different locations, during the past 12 months.